From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cathryn Mataga Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfbbd: Run the same data files on 64-bit Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 17:15:10 -0700 Message-ID: <51D8B30E.40401@junglevision.com> References: <4CE0313C.3080804@upmc.fr> <51D738A7.1010505@junglevision.com> <0A70646B-CB6F-4FBE-8D10-767502DD78B6@upmc.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <0A70646B-CB6F-4FBE-8D10-767502DD78B6@upmc.fr> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Pidoux Cc: linux-hams On 7/6/2013 2:24 PM, Pidoux wrote: > Hi Cathryn, > > Thank you for your message. > I have been using FBB 7.05e on a 64 bits machine for a while with Mandriva and somce lat year with Mageia Linux distro without problem. >However I never tried to import any data from a previous 32 bits install for I do not see any necessity to do that. Yeah, what happened to me was I upgraded and then all my messages/users went away because the 64/32 bit issue. Basically the structures for files suck as inf.sys (which contain the user list) use 'long' which is 64-bits on 64 bit systems and 32-bits on 32-bit systems. So when you upgrade from 32 to 64 bits all the data is lost. However, this change would cause issues for anyone now who has been 64-bit since the change. I can send again in the correct format but with an #ifdef so that it can only be turned on only for people who need it.